Jeremy Zawodny : Pen question - Pen question: "Why is it that when a pen seems like it is running out of ink, you can scribble on another part of the page and get it to work, but you can’t resume writing in the area you were working on when it ran out of ink?" I wonder t

Simon Willison : jQuery Sparklines
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jQuery Sparklines. Delightful Sparklines implementation, using canvas or VML in IE. A neat nod towards unobtrusiveness as well: you can specify your data as comma separated values inside a span, then use a single jQuery method call to convert the span i

Cameron Moll : jQuery Sparklines - jQuery Sparklines. If I have to explain what jQuery is or sparklines are, this probably isn't for you.

wearehugh : The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » This Week Day in HTML 5 - Episode 23 - Topics include the spellcheck attribute, the autocomplete attribute, and the publication of a new W3C Working Draft of HTML 5.

Jeremy Zawodny : How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data: interesting approach that uses MySQL as more of a glorified column store, since writing "normal" relational queries becomes difficult. But it does scale and that's what matters.

Simon Willison : How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. The pain of altering/ adding indexes to tables with 250 million rows was killing their ability to try out new features, so they’ve moved to storing pickled Python objects and manually creating the i

Cameron Moll : Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica - Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica. Mathematica, as I learned today, is software used in the scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields to do some fairly complex computations. Graphic designer and Wolfram Research employee Chris Carlson used th

Rod Begbie : The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist - Good Economist article about how "the Dunbar number" relates to online social networks, with some interesting stats about friend groups on Facebook. [via] #

WillPate : The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist

Andy Baio : Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall -
While researching Oscar screeners last month, I stumbled on a remarkable example of online collaboration in China that's completely undiscovered here. In short, a group of dedicated fans of The Economist newsmagazine are translating each weekly issue c